Diabetes and Prior Coronary Heart Disease are Not Necessarily Risk Equivalent for Future Coronary Heart Disease Events

For more than a decade, the presence of diabetes has been considered a coronary heart disease (CHD) "risk equivalent".The objective of this study was to revisit the concept of risk equivalence by comparing the risk of subsequent CHD events among individuals with or without history of diabetes or CHD in a large contemporary real-world cohort over a period of 10 years (2002 to 2011).Population-based prospective cohort analysis.We studied a cohort...